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Jing Yuan stood up and looked at the others, asking, "Which of you is the mastermind? Why did you start a rebellion? If someone tells me the whole story, I won't kill him!"

"Lord Jing Yuan! Lord Jing Yuan!"

Suddenly, a man came running out on his knees. "I'll tell you! I'll tell you!"

Jing Yuan looked at the man before him. "What is your name?"

"My name is Buri! Lord Jing Yuan, we've met before!"

Jing Yuan ignored him and asked directly, "Speak! I want to know the whole story behind this. Why did you rebel with Charles? I remember some of you weren't Charles's fanatical followers!"

"It's..." Buri was still hesitating.

A sharp light erupted in Jing Yuan's eyes. In that instant, Buri seemed to see a vision of himself being beheaded!

Buri broke into a cold sweat and said, gasping for breath, "Lord Jing Yuan! Mercy! Have mercy! I'll tell you everything! Because... because you raised the status of the Dust Citizens. You let Dust Citizens do our jobs as Upper Citizens. They were worried they couldn't compete with the Dust Citizens and feared their status wouldn't be secure. That's why they thought of rescuing Charles, so the father and son, Morgan and Charles, could take control of the Lighthouse again! To protect their status!"

After hearing Buri's words, Jing Yuan's gaze grew even colder!

"Is that so?" Jing Yuan asked the others in a cold voice.

The others remained silent.

After a moment of silence, one person suddenly said, "If you want those lowly Dust Citizens to replace us, we'd rather die! Since death is the outcome either way, why not go out with a bang!"

Jing Yuan sneered. "Go on!"

"The Lighthouse has survived until today by relying on the three great laws. By violating the three great laws, you are making an enemy of all of us!"

"All of you?" Jing Yuan looked at him skeptically, then looked at the other Upper Citizens around him!

Jing Yuan looked around and asked, "Does the 'everyone' he's talking about include you too?"

"No, no, no!" someone in the crowd hurriedly said, "Lord Jing Yuan, that's just their own opinion. It has nothing to do with us."

"Right! It has nothing to do with us!"

Jing Yuan looked at them. "You heard that! These are just your own thoughts! You're worried you can't compete with the Dust Citizens, so you started a rebellion to secure your positions!

But aren't you Upper Citizens? Aren't your genes superior? Why would you be afraid of 'inferior' Dust Citizens stealing your livelihoods?

In that case, fine!

I announce that from this day forward, the three great laws are officially abolished!

Who is in favor? Who is opposed?"

"I object!"

One person among the rebels immediately stood up.

Jing Yuan glanced at him, and a bullet head directly pierced through the man's forehead.

Everyone trembled as they watched this scene.

"Who else objects?"

The people kneeling here were originally the most cowardly lot among the rebels.

Seeing that anyone who spoke up died instantly, no one dared to say a word!

"Good! No objections! I'll take it that you all agree!"

Jing Yuan looked at everyone around him and said, "I hope you understand! Everything I do is to survive in the apocalypse! It's not to protect the comfortable lives of a certain class!

Starting today, there are no Upper Citizens or Dust Citizens. Everyone will be allocated resources equally based on their labor."

Jing Yuan pointed at the people on the ground and cursed, "Don't think I don't know why you're afraid of being replaced by Dust Citizens. It's because you useless trash sit in your positions and don't have to do anything! You get the best food, the best clothes, and the best housing without lifting a finger! You even get to go to the Hall of Dawn to procreate! Meanwhile, those Dust Citizens who work a hundred or a thousand times harder than you can only eat bug cakes!

Why do you think you deserve that? Just because you were born well?

So from today on, everyone will speak with their own ability!"

Jing Yuan looked at the group kneeling on the ground and said coldly, "Because of your selfish desires, so many people have died on the Lighthouse! I now sentence you for crimes against humanity! The death penalty, to be carried out by me personally!"

Jing Yuan controlled that bullet head, and from left to right, it pierced through the heads of the group one by one.

One after another, they collapsed.

Buri knelt before Jing Yuan, terrified and soul-shaken, looking at Jing Yuan with pleading eyes.

But Jing Yuan still did not spare him!

This time, Jing Yuan didn't let a single one go!

"Stop!"

By the time Mark rushed over, these people had already collapsed to the ground.

Mark walked over and looked at Jing Yuan angrily, "Charles is already dead, why did you have to kill them?"

Jing Yuan looked at Mark, "I cannot make the same mistake twice! If I had decisively killed Charles and his supporters last time, this wouldn't have happened. Mo Dong and Neil wouldn't be dead! Snow Peak and the others wouldn't have died either!"

Mark hesitated too.

As an excellent politician, one should understand that the transition of power is often accompanied by bloodshed and sacrifice.

The fastest way to unify opinions is to eliminate all dissenters.

That's exactly what Morgan did when he implemented the three great laws back then!

Thus, Morgan was an excellent politician.

Jing Yuan and Mark were not excellent politicians.

Their indecision was what led to so many people dying.

If at the beginning... Jing Yuan and Mark both remained silent; it was useless to say anything now.

Jing Yuan glanced back at Chu Feng and said, "Take all these people to the Incineration Room and burn them!"

...Inside the Law Enforcement Office.

Jing Yuan sat alone on the steps.

Outside the door, 4068 slowly walked in.

His expression was complex, filled with both fear and a hint of secret joy.

Even now, he was savoring his own cleverness.

Thinking back on that final scene of his last-minute defection, he really had to praise himself.

"4068!" Jing Yuan looked at 4068. This time, facing Jing Yuan, he obediently knelt on one knee.

"You were helpful in suppressing the rebellion this time. What reward do you want?"

"To be able to serve Lord Jing Yuan, I seek no reward."

"Don't call me Lord anymore. I just abolished the three great laws. There are no 'Lords' on this Lighthouse!"

"Yes!"

"4068, you've always thought highly of yourself, believing you're very capable and only unable to show your strength because of your status as a Dust Citizen. Now, there is no more Dust Citizen status. You can show what you're made of!"

4068 lowered his head, "Thank you, Lord Jing... thank you, Leader Jing Yuan!"

"Don't call me Leader either. The Light and Shadow Society will be gone too!"

4068 didn't know how to address him for a moment.

Jing Yuan smiled, "See! I've removed the status that restricted you, yet you still feel inferior. So was it your status that restricted you, or was it you who restricted yourself?"

4068 was stunned, not knowing how to answer.

"I've never liked you, but I still wanted to give you a chance. Who knew you were truly a mad dog! It's one thing that you defected and killed Victor! But 4079 was your friend! You were partners who grew up together! How could you even lay a hand on him?"

4068's face instantly turned pale. His mouth opened slightly, but no sound came out.

Large beads of sweat began to drop from his forehead.

"No! That's not it! Lord Jing Yuan, 4079 was killed by Charles's men." 4068 was still trying to talk his way out of it.

"Charles wouldn't go out of his way to deal with a Dust Citizen!"

A girl's voice came from the shadows.

As the footsteps approached, 4068 gradually saw clearly that the newcomer was 4277.

"4277, it's not like that. I didn't kill 4079!" 4068 suddenly pointed at Jing Yuan, "It's him! It must be him who wants to kill me! He's deliberately framing me!"

An expression of extreme disappointment and disgust appeared on 4277's face.

Seeing 4277 look at him with such an expression was more painful for 4068 than being killed with a knife.

4277 said, "The one who discovered all this wasn't Jing Yuan, it was me!"

Chapter 200: Morgan Goes Offline

4277 could not hide the disappointment on her face as she said, "While I was helping them count the deceased, I discovered that among all the people who died, 4079 was the only Dust Citizen.

Even if Charles launched a coup, his primary targets wouldn't be Dust Citizens."